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Gelae Miller & Wheeler

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 71

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1

publication LSID

 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2F901615-D948-4C68-81E9-75282F594BAF

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797345

persistent identifier

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scientific name

 Gelae Miller & Wheeler
status

 

Genus Gelae Miller & Wheeler View in CoL

Gelae Miller & Wheeler, 2005a: 469 View in CoL . Type species: Gelae donut Miller & Wheeler View in CoL (orig. des.).

Refers to “undescribed genus 7” in Peck et al., 1998a: 54

Key: to species in Miller & Wheeler, 2005a: 473.

Distribution: 8 species—Nearctic, Neotropical. Many undescribed species in CMNC collection.

Biology: Probably feeds on fungi and slime molds in leaf litter; from sealevel to 3000 m.

Miller, K. B. & Wheeler, Q. D. (2005 a (2004 )) Two new genera of Agathidiini from the Nearctic and Neotropical regions (Coleoptera: Leiodidae). Coleopterists Bulletin, 58, 466 - 487. https: // doi. org / 10.1649 / 633

Peck, S. B., Gnaspini, P. & Newton, A. F. (1998 a) Catalogue and generic keys for the Leiodidae of Mexico State, West Indies, and Central and South America (Insecta: Coleoptera). Giornale Italiano de Entomologia, 9, 37 - 72.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

SubFamily

Coloninae

Specimens